Re: New Committer Orientation

2014-01-16 Thread Ross Gardler
party@ is used for syncing up with folks when travelling. Send a mail to party@ with "I'll be in X on ..., want to meet up for dinner or beer or something" and you will often find people to entertain you in a strange town Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Senior Technology Evangelist Microsoft Open Technol

Re: New Committer Orientation

2014-01-16 Thread Ross Gardler
Nearest ComDev have is http://community.apache.org/committers/ best .org page is http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Senior Technology Evangelist Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation On 13 January 2014 11:40, Rich Bowen wrote

Re: Keynote idea: Revolutionizing Education

2014-01-16 Thread Ian Boston
On 16 January 2014 17:51, Ross Gardler wrote: > As someone who has worked in the educational sector I would urge caution on > this topic. It is highly charged and very divisive (which, with the right > content and speaker makes for a great Keynote) Also worked for 10 years in the Higher Ed in jus

Re: Volunteer design work for Apache Software Foundation....

2014-01-16 Thread Nikash SINGH
Hi Melissa, Rich and Sebbaz, And HULLO to the dev@community list! (I've been subscribed for some time, but waiting my turn, Rich and Melissa suggested moving this discussion here) I've prepared some early graphics for the conference (and hopefully it is flexible enough to accommodate many con

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Rich Bowen
I'm sorry Nick, you told me this earlier and I misplaced the info in my brain. Yes, it would be helpful to make that change. Thanks. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com On Jan 16, 2014 4:53 PM, "Nick Burch" wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: > >> On 01/15/2014 10:40 PM, Roman Shapo

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Nick Burch
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Rich Bowen wrote: On 01/15/2014 10:40 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Trouble is -- wiki doesn't let me login: RomanShaposhnik Same account I use for wiki.apache.org/incubator/ Ok, looks like the wiki was a bad idea, and I need to put it in a different wiki. You can tempora

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Rich Bowen
Wiki updated. So, the way that this will work, as far as I understand it, is that each volunteer will be given a moderator login on the CFP system, and will be able to rate the proposal at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/cfp-list I want to be sure that projects are represented, so that

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Rich Bowen
On 01/15/2014 10:40 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: I'd like to through my hat in the ring as far as Bigtop and Giraph are concerned. Also, for as long as nobody's willing to handle Spark -- I'd be more than happy to do that as well. Trouble is -- wiki doesn't let me login: RomanShaposhnik Same acc

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Rich Bowen
At a minimum, I'd like every project represented, but the committee as a whole can make recommendations. If you feel that a particular project has someone listed that is opinionated, please ping that PMC and ask them to put someone else forward in addition. I'm the "single throat to choke" on

Re: Keynote idea: Revolutionizing Education

2014-01-16 Thread Ross Gardler
As someone who has worked in the educational sector I would urge caution on this topic. It is highly charged and very divisive (which, with the right content and speaker makes for a great Keynote) I think it is a great topic, but if this is selected I hope we ensure the content is about he opportu

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Ross Gardler
Rich, you can put me down to help you ensure everything is fair and balanced. How you want to use myself and broader group review is up to you. Ross Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Senior Technology Evangelist Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation On 15 January 201

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > I've put the ApacheCon content committee listing at > https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ContentCommitteeNA2014 > > If you're not listed there, and you'd like to help curate content for the > conference, please add your project and name there.

Re: Volunteer design work for Apache Software Foundation....

2014-01-16 Thread Melissa Warnkin
Hey Rich, Following up on thisnow that ApacheCon Denver has been announced, we should bump this up a bit in priority since the pages are still reflecting ACNA 2013 Portland. ~M From: Rich Bowen To: Nikash SINGH ; Melissa Warnkin Cc: "seb...@gmail.co

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Jim Jagielski
I signed up for the content cmmt but not specifically to represent any single project, so I guess I'm one :) On Jan 15, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014, at 03:44 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> Many projects have only a single person listed per project. In some >> cases

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Daniel Gruno
On 01/16/2014 01:10 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> ...Are submissions going to be curated by the group as a whole? Or only by >> the person listed?... > > I hope it's the group. IMO it is very important to take the speakers' > (expected)

Re: ApacheCon content committee

2014-01-16 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > ...Are submissions going to be curated by the group as a whole? Or only by > the person listed?... I hope it's the group. IMO it is very important to take the speakers' (expected) quality into account, as much as the talk abstract. There are

Re: Keynote idea: Revolutionizing Education

2014-01-16 Thread Marcel Offermans
Hello Bertrand, On 15 Jan 2014, at 9:21 , Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Marcel Offermans > wrote: >> ... The keynote is not technical, but instead focusses on how this platform >> helps improve the way we teach our children... > > I like that - for me the best k